Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Sergey Shinderuk <s(dot)shinderuk(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com, er(at)xs4all(dot)nl, joel(at)compiler(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Schema variables - new implementation for Postgres 15
Date: 2024-06-02 21:31:03
Message-ID: d3edc4a4-94ff-4c00-ad81-4ff0c9d7f0be@eisentraut.org
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On 25.05.24 12:50, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> It looks odd - It is not intuitive, it introduces new inconsistency
> inside Postgres, or with solutions in other databases. No other database
> has a similar rule, so users coming from Oracle, Db2, or MSSQL, Firebird
> will be confused. Users that use PL/pgSQL will be confused.

Do you have a description of what those other systems do? Maybe you
posted it already earlier?

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